It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
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It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a f...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance!
LAURIE STRONGIN Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Hamilton Wright Mabie...
FRANKLIN P. JONES Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to t...
PETE DOMENICI In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed
RALPH WALDO EMERSON In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Anybody investing on the assumption of who's going to win the election is skating on thin ice.
JAMES AWAD Most of the smaller carriers who are not supported by a rich parent are really skating on thin ice.
DOUG MCVITIE A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA If you should go skating
On the thin ice of modern life
Dragging behind you the silent reproach
Of a...
PINK FLOYD If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a...
PINK FLOYD It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.
ERIC SAN There’s always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems imposs...
CAROL GOODMAN We are skating on thin ice. Next it may be a dirty bomb, a chemical attack or a nuclear bomb. When w...
TIM ROEMER When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget you...
MICHIO KAKU I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel mor...
KATE WALSH Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, bu...
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It's like a sauce!
CHRIS PRATT I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It's an amazing...
JOHNNY WEIR I'm not the type to cut back on hot showers, but there's no harm in hot water when it's ...
JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS I've never been invited to do 'Stars on Ice' before, which is the only figure skating to...
JOHNNY WEIR I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and ot...
NANCY E. TURNER I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTON I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G.K. CHESTERTON The water is alive. It is alive. If we could get a mask and fins and drop down off these docks, we...
RANDY WAYNE WHITE I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTON In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get to...
THORSTEN HEINS Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international ...
SCOTT HAMILTON You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get...
JOAQUIN ANDUJAR If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. Peop...
LARRY HAGMAN I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly....
THOMAS KINKADE We'll use it to get into areas we can't get into with our trucks or by foot. You can go on mud, thro...
BRIAN O'GREEN I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the n...
PATRICK CHAN If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Most kids have been skating since they were 3 on the ice. I'd say it probably took me a good year to...
JOSEPH HARCHARIK On a hot day, you can't think of anything better to hop into some cold water in a quarry. What they ...
AMY LOUVIERE In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they're an unbroken unity. In t...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
WARREN ELLIS Trust is like a block of ice, once it melts into the ground, you can never get it back.
CAPTAIN CHIEF One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Frankli...
TIMOTHY NOAH I grew up on Bay Lake. We had a big family and all of us kids were into the outdoors. My older broth...
JANE MORAN I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down...
BRITTANY BOWE Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely ex...
KATE GRENVILLE Let's get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I don't thi...
TEMPLE GRANDIN Waitress: "And to drink?"
Artemis: "Spring water. Irish, if you have it. And no ice, please. As...
EOIN COLFER There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of l...
CLIFF RICHARD I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good p...
PATRICK DEWITT We were always skating on thin ice, Shaking the wrong dice, Swimming against the tide, Playing on th...
KEITH REID There is an old saying that, you can't kill a frog by dropping him into hot water. As you drop him i...
SOURCE UNKNOWN All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in.
LIZA DONNELLY It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For exampl...
URSULA BURNS P. I. on a Hot Tin Roof: A Talba Wallis Novel,
JULIE SMITH If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance
AFRICAN PROVERB The scenes in 'The Virgin Suicides' where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing.
CHARLI XCX I didn't get into skating to be famous.
ERIC HEIDEN If you fast forward your clocks to Dec. 31 of this year, you're going to have yet another year in wh...
PAUL MEEKS A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place ...
JAMES TAYLOR There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common...
DANIEL EVERETT Sometimes shit's gotta be done and I just fuckin' do it!
MANUEL MONGRAIN If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance! -Anonymous.
ANONYMOUS Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and p...
CAITY LOTZ Being in South Africa, that messed up my body a little bit. I broke out in spots, and I got really d...
MAISIE WILLIAMS It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
LAURA DERN I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I'm obsessed with frozen yogurt because you don't feel totally guilty eating it. It's no...
CAROLINE SUNSHINE When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
KATARINA WITT The weekend after 'Kimmy' started streaming on Netflix, I did notice a definite difference i...
ELLIE KEMPER Every time I see my brother, I just praise God for God's grace in his life. Because if God can c...
ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ Thin Ice.
JIMMY STEWART The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's as...
JAMES HILLMAN On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source ...
SAM SHEPARD I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard ...
ALEKSA PALLADINO Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense...
MARGARET ATWOOD I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and eas...
DIEGO DELLA VALLE When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort o...
GRAHAM MOORE There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT There's not as much oxygen in that hot gym and I think it's great for conditioning. I believ...
EMANUEL STEWARD Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
ARNOLD BENNETT That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a ...
ADAM YAUCH The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog ven...
DAVID LETTERMAN I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! Tha...
BOBBY ORR I roller skated when I was younger, but when you're on a track that's slanted and you're...
KRISTEN WIIG One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which...
FRITZ KREISLER Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over ...
ROBERT FROST When ice is real hard, it shatters and you can get microscopic shards of ice. You don't want them in...
ELTON ADAMS Figure skating is not a hobby. It's my work, which I want to do, and do well.
ADELINA SOTNIKOVA As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's ...
RORY STEWART I like a good mattress, first of all. I have a Hestia bed, and it's the best mattress in the wor...
ELSA HOSK We have felt that we are walking on thin ice in safety management.
GAO HONGFENG I went through a phase of eating dinner in the shower because I thought, 'Why don't we do th...
BRIE LARSON It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get...
MIRANDA OTTO There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, beca...
T-PAIN It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot o...
KEANU REEVES It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who yo...
FRED FRITH It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to...
ERIC STOLTZ The ice is thin for the government. Considering it's the summer time it might just get thinner.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowl...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is ri...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A plural Legislature is as necessary to good Government as a single Executive. It is not enough that...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. FRANKLIN mentioned the case of the Prince of Orange William V, during the late war. An arrangeme...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a...
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